hello.. :)

[Harry1973]

You could try a mix of Find Edges, Invert, and CC Toner.

[Andrew Kramer]

Well, I’m a sucker for a fun project. Not that I have time to be side-tracking right now, but…
http://www.videocopilot.net/car.zip

It’s a simple little aep 7.

I think what would make it even better is if the axis lines where drawn with pencil then scanned and overlayed.

I used a turbulent displace, before the smart blur to give it a hand-drawn animated look.

I hope it helps,
Andrew

[Deyson Ortiz]

Thanks man…

I will have to upgrade to AE 7.0 to look at it.. I will see if we can get tommorow…

We just got your training DVD hope to get alot from it..

keep you posted
Deyson

[Andrew Kramer]

great!
You can always download the trial to see how it works for you, the image looks something like this…
http://www.videocopilot.net/car.jpg

I hope you like the training DVD,

thanks,
Andrew

[Zander]

wow andrew, looks, well awsome.

it’d be cool t “key out” the backgorund of th final car so it sits on the blue paper, an thats some simple photoshopping.

also, is there a god way to create a wireframe of an object from a still, or is that like trying t make teh computer guess what underwear I have on?

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[Mylenium]

[Zander] “also, is there a god way to create a wireframe of an object from a still, or is that like trying t make teh computer guess what underwear I have on?”

In a way it is. Computers don’t hink perceptually and usually don’t know how certain areas go together including surrounding edges. To them it’s all math – if a pixel has value X it belongs to an area, if it doesn’t it doesn#t it must be either a differnet area or an irrelevant pixel. Our intern wrote his diploma about contour and motion detection, which quite opened my eyes for the intricacies involved… ;o)

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[Mylenium]

No. This type of stuff usually requires modeling the item in question in a 3D program and rendering as a wireframe mesh matchged up to the motion of the original and indeed the belief stuff seems to have been done this way.

Anyway, if you don’t have a 3D program, not all hope is lost, but be warned: Don’t rely on any automatism – it will look cheap and ridiculous. More to the point: Be prepared to carefully create/ paint the contours in Illustrator or as mask shapes with Stroke/ 3DStroke and then arrange them in AE to build your “car” using 3D layers.

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[Daveyg]

would it be possible to rotate that car in the wireframe state. that would be cool. or is that 3d app

[Sam Moulton]

the web is full of tutorials for turning photographs to sketches. I’ve seen one that did a great job on a car just by duplicating the photo, desaturating it then using color dodge and gausian blur. haven’t tried it but it should work in AE

[Wildfire]

The Car in the add is definitely a 3D model. I’ve done a few of them myself. To simplify it down if you didn’t want to model the whole car and have a complete wireframe, you could create the car out of splines, make them renderable with a 100& self illumination map on. Maybe a couple of hours per car depending on the detail required.

If you do it Andrew’s way you can rotate the car if the footage is of a rotating car. (Excellent project BTW Andrew!! I love all your stuff!!)